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In 2012 Environmental Research Letters (ERL) launched a focus series of research papers on the theme of biodiversity, health and well-being. It was the year of the second Rio Summit on Sustainable Development, a huge number of species had been made extinct and conservationists were making increasingly urgent calls for the protection of biodiversity. The situation is ever more critical. Since we started the issue more species have become extinct, and hundreds more have now become critically endangered. The focus issue highlighted the complexity of the links of biodiversity and health, and provides more evidence for the importance to human health of biodiversity on our planet. Research papers contrasted anthropocentric western scientific views of biodiversity and its ecosystem service to humans, with the more horizontal conceptions of indigenous communities in the Amazon—and as many cultures have recognized throughout history, they recognize that we are part of nature: nature does not exist for us.

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dealt with this kind of view of the consistent with the service to assign either a disservice or a positive sense to us 1 of the land use changes and biodiversity loss 1 thing policy-making the complexity of policy-making in Belgian looking at both negative and positive biodiversity aspects another to infectious disease surveillance and power for a share we have to papers which took a

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completely different epistemological approach looking at

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indigenous understanding and indigenous peoples view of the ecosystem around

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them a horizontal relationship where other species or elements of the planet had equal rights with us as a species or this contrast so strongly this indigenous and rural image of the world with full conservationists and our troops proposed conserve what's left of biodiversity using well in itself is a controversial medical stress-strain whole-tree hours to choose which species should liver which should die trying to think about whether the species have genetic value and are genetically where all perhaps that they have a utility shipments but how can we do this when we look at the species is beautiful but flies what this beautiful

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legal which is not other genetically unique nor particularly rare nor is considered to be very useful to us as humans it is as you also have a right to the planet and if we don't thing a consistent tonnages between this river consists of all this mounting arid speaker system so but incredibly by others that incomplete of waste I have to do with the fact we don't even understand the levels or complexity of the biodiversity linkages in the environment around us 50 per cent of

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people are now living in cities and will be cities that decides the future if you look at this age and city we go

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back to origin transparent This is the county tree of life doesn't look so similar to this beautiful living tree that's so important for indigenous people nowadays as closely is here leaders all over the world a meeting in Paris to decide what to do about our destruction of the

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planet to climate change and isn't it time that we start to think and respect small history and the knowledge indigenous people and go back to knowledge fossils as part of nature not control is of major the highly ironic position we've got as far as the destroyers and the scientists of the future of our planet